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Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carter Rubin
The first time you saw a fleet of rent-able electric scooters huddled together on a city sidewalk, what was your reaction? Annoyance at yet another...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Lloyd Alter
What do cork, coffee cups, lettuce, and excessive travel have in common? They are all areas of personal choice that have an environmental impact, a...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Richard Heinberg
If you're someone who's curious about the geopolitical implications of carbon fuel and the ecological havoc it wreaks, you've probably come across ...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Mark Hertsgaard
Last week in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsg...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Graham Sinclair
There is a nearly constant scroll of bad news passing before our eyes, from rampant income inequality and raging wildfires to climate devastation a...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Keith Schneider
Over the last few decades, the skyline of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur has mushroomed – a conglomeration of skyscrapers highlighted by The Petro...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Kate Williams
When you read about the giant islands of plastic garbage in our oceans, or see time-lapsed photos of diminishing arctic sea ice, in order to stave ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brent Constantz
Most people wouldn’t guess it, but concrete is the single most widely used material in the world. And both production and consumption are on the ri...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Spencer Wise
Take a look at the shoes you’re wearing right now. You’ve probably logged more than a few miles in them already. But what kind of journey did they ...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shel Horowitz
What is meant by “enlightened self-interest,” and how does it inform consumer decisions? Shel Horowitz, a profitability and marketing consultant fo...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Have you forgotten the days of $5 gas from a few years ago? Well, after a period of relatively low prices, the price of the world's most-used fossi...

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  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alexandria Sage
The transportation sector is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. There are vast resources currently being spent to transfo...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rebecca Leber
I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a headline that the Trump Administration has made a new announcement, I generally assume that it’s bad n...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 1
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The Tennessee Walking Horse has a natural gait that’s famously smooth. And, if trained in a certain way, it can perform a walk that’s even more spe...

Bought by WUTC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:05
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cody Friesen
In our household we do our best to avoid buying bottled water - we're keenly aware of what those darn plastic bottles are doing to the environment....

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Sami Grover
As many of us prepare for the hectic holiday hustle of planes, trains and automobiles, we might be thinking about how our travel plans are going to...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sammy Roth
With all the false claims about “fake news” and verifiable lies being proffered as facts by the president and others, it’s quite refreshing to be r...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Caption: Gilbert Campbell III
Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Gilbert Campbell III, the Co-Founder of Volt Energy, is here to remind us that sustainable energy is good,...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
Caption: Donnel Baird
Compared with new buildings, older buildings tend to eat up a lot more energy and produce and trap a lot more pollution. Whether it’s an old church...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scott and Julie Brusaw
What if the roads we drove on, instead of being made of carbon-intensive petroleum sludge, were actually solar panels? And what if whenever electri...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Anya Cherneff
In physics, electricity is power. Electricity can also be power, though, in the sense that it creates opportunity for the pursuit of social capital...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amy Harder
Even the most astute followers of the news may have missed that the Trump Administration is touting a series of self-proclaimed focal areas. With c...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Caption: Barret Werk
“I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.” Perhaps Walt Whitman had this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio in mind...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Are the cries for a complete transition to renewable energy from environmentalists like Bill McKibben actually undermining the work to combat clima...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1